Natural gardening by climate zone
A vegetable garden that works with nature
Draw your plot and get a 3-year plan: what to sow where, which green manures and protector plants, and what to do when — for your climate and your frost dates.
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What the app does
Plot drawing
Beds, trees, the house, a pond: shade is worked out for you and each bed gets its hours of sun.
A 3-year plan in PDF
A rotation that never repeats a family, green manures between seasons, protector plants, a seed list in grams.
A calendar from your frost dates
Sowing dates count from your town's frost dates, with autumn re-sowing where the season allows.
Green manures and companions
What to sow before what, when to cut it, which neighbours help and which hold each other back.
Garden helpers
Ladybirds, lacewings, toads, hedgehogs: who to invite into the garden and how.
Weather and frost
A 7-day forecast for your town and a warning when it's time to cover the seedlings.
Questions and answers
Short, practical answers about natural gardening: soil, green manures, pests without chemicals, water, compost.
- What is a USDA zone?
- What is a cover crop?
- When should I cut the cover crop?
- What is a protector plant?
- Why rotate crops?
- What is in the garden plan?
- How do I buy the plan?
- I lost my access code
- Can I get a refund?
- My plot is not rectangular
- What is mulch?
- How do I make compost?
- When is the last frost?
- How do I turn off the sounds?
- Which languages are available?
- What data do you store?
- How can I contact you?
- What is permaculture?
- What are permaculture zones?
- How much rainwater can I collect?
- Can I use fresh manure?
- How to attract ladybirds?
- How do I draw my plot?
- What is a fruit tree guild?
- Should I dig the garden?
- Can I compost straight on the beds?
- How do legumes fix nitrogen?
- Natural pest sprays
- How to get rid of weeds without chemicals?
- Which plants should not be planted together?
- What to sow between plantings?
- Should I sow by the lunar calendar?
- What if there is no soil (concrete, gravel, clay)?
- How to keep a greenhouse warm without heating?
- How to make a pond for wildlife?
- How to make a living willow fence?
- Which trees feed other trees with nitrogen?
- How do trees help with water?
- How to store carrots and beetroot over winter?
- Which green manure for which problem?
- How to improve clay soil without digging?
- What to do with fallen leaves?
- How to get rid of chafer grubs?
- How to control slugs without chemicals?
- Is the firebug a pest?
- How to make fertiliser from kitchen scraps?
- How to keep worms at home?
- What can I plant near a walnut tree?
- What are clay seed balls?
Plants
Vegetables, green manures and protector plants: when to sow by climate zone, good and bad neighbours, what each is good for.
Garden jobs month by month
What to do in the vegetable garden each month, for every climate zone.
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Garden helpers
Who eats the pests for free, and how to invite them into the garden.
Make a plan for your own plot
Draw your beds, pick the crops and download a 3-year plan. No sign-up.